Strike that... reverse it

So what I really wanted to talk about today is fast forwarding. This is a great technique I've learned over the last 2.5 years, but just recently have put to use. The main idea is that when you have a decision to make you fast forward in your mind to the outcome of each choice, thus you skip over most of the detail and get to the nitty gritty of the situation. I noticed that I did this with a certain girl the other day. We'll call her..... Jessica C. No no... J Clark. I made a choice about something that would have led to me pretending to be angry or hurt, which would have led to me believing that I was actually angry or hurt which would have turned into a miserable weekend. Now... this is a situation that I've played out several times in several prior relationships. And in the instant that I made this decision I "fast forwarded" to the outcome (aka the miserable weekend as described above) and was able, for the first time that I'm aware of, to change the situation. I immediately apologized, explained why I was sorry and what for, because at this point it only had made sense to me because I knew how it would turn out. Anyways, long story short, we had a great weekend and so I guess I just want to bare (bear?) my testimony of the usefulness of fast forwarding, that it works for I have seen it work, but only if you let it change your actions. How many times have I let things happen when I knew that I could change them if I had wanted to, or how many opportunities have I passed up because I didn't look at the results, only the effort involved? I've talked about this a lot in therapy, to avoid "certain situations" I can fast forward to what the outcome will inevitably be, mostly regret or shame or anger etc.
Anyways. I hope that you can find this useful in your lives, and, as always feel free to share experiences that you have had with this principle in the past or perhaps ways that you can apply it to things in the future. It seems that marriages could benefit from this, as Jess and I only see each other a couple times a week and we have benefitted from it and married people see each other... well..... every day. Best of luck.